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Learning Lesson: Measure the Pressure -- The "Wet" Barometer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use simple objects to create their own barometer. They have five days to build it and ten days to observe and collect data. They examine thunderstorm safety tips to end the lesson.
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You Can Take the Pressure!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct and use a barometer over a period of 1-2 weeks to investigate and predict upcoming weather from barometric pressure.
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Cures: Barometer

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students discuss and fill out a worksheet about the controversial cures of people with disabilities in the past. In this disabilities lesson plan, students write about the issues and justification for if they agree or disagree with these...
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Wind and Air Pressure

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students make an anemometer, barometer, and wind catcher to see how wind and air pressure are related. In this wind lesson plan, students use these tools to measure the wind speed.
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Weather Station

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create their own barometer, precipitation, rain gauge, anemometer, and more with their weather stations. For this weather station lesson plan, students access on line websites on how to make their own weather tools.
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Atmospheric Pressure

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Push the envelope with this instructional activity on atmospheric pressure! Your physics or geology juniors will be amazed at your super-human ability as you demonstrate the breaking of a stick using a newspaper! They also work with...
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Weather Watchers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in this weather predicting instructional activity. They discover instrumentation used in the meteorological science. With this knowledge, they will create their own "low-tech" versions of weather instrumentation such as...
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Weather Instruments

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice making predictions about weather from conditions they observe on weather instruments and weather reports. Learners are introduced to the most basic weather reporting instruments: the thermometer, the wind vane, the...
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Smoking Ban

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students start this activity with an icebreaker that is read out loud, then followed by questions that they respond to. They brainstorm the reasons why people smoke, in pairs students discuss why people give up smoking.
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Meteorology Madness

For Teachers 4th
Students probe the dynamic weather changes through several hands-0n activities in this seven lessons unit. The hydrologic cycle, clouds, atmosphere, air movement, fronts, and forecasting form the components presented in this unit.
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Investigating the Weather

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Learners study, record, and predict weather. They work in groups to create a weather word wall, research and make a barometer, and create a video about weather. They use the Internet to research weather.
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Weather Watchers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study basic meteorology concepts. They build a simple barometer to measure air pressure. They explore the concepts of relative humidity, air convection currents and temperature inversions and to discover their connection to...
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Winter and Summer Storms Scenarios

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze how summer and winter storms are different. In this weather lesson, 4th graders construct a winter storm simulation box and a summer storm bottle and record the temperature and barometer readings. The directions to...
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Weather with Lewis and Clark: Then and Now

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss how to accurately measure weather, gather materials in order to make instruments, and build weather instruments in which they measure and record different aspects of weather for a five-day period.
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Who's Responsible - You Or Your Parents?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch a news clip about people who think bad parents are to blame for bad kids. They then take a quiz about legal age and responsibility. Finally they design a series of parenting lessons.
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The Weather

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how weather conditions and phenomena occur and how they can be predicted. They complete an internet search. Students create a weather fact sheet over a selected weather phenomenon.
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Shop projects Summer Smile Program

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the list of products available to make and choose at least 2.  In this project instructional activity students pick and choose their own projects to create in a shop class.

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